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Monday, June 23, 2014

Good Enough Ain't Good Enough Anymore

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In my addiction, I usually did the wrong thing. On occasion, I would do the right thing. Sometimes it was because I still had some principa...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Better Life in Recovery Rocking in June

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This past Saturday BLiR ( Better Life in Recovery , Inc.) was scheduled to bring in a group of people and paint the Sunshine Elementary pla...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Streamlining!

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I had an opportunity to meet with one of my mentors. As always, it was a great experience and I left with a lot more information in my head ...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Why We Relapse/How We Recover

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I was an addict for a long time. I was an addict for a quarter of a century. People would ask me why I would continue to use, after all that...
Monday, May 5, 2014

BLiR - Community Service

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This was a great weekend for  Better Life in Recovery (BLiR). BliR is an organization whose purpose is to deal hope and decimate stigma surr...
Monday, April 28, 2014

You Can't Unpickle a Pickle

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Sitting in the rooms I once heard a man say that you can’t turn a pickle back into a cucumber. He was saying that as a reply to another per...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Better Life in Recovery: Dealing Hope and Decimating Stigma

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 Better Life in Recovery, Inc. (BLiR) is an organization whose purpose is to deal hope and decimate stigma surrounding addictions and mental...
Monday, April 14, 2014

I Hate Stigma

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It has taken me over a week to write this blog. One of the reasons that it has taken me this long is because of things I am currently workin...

Why I Love God's Attributes

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Have you ever taken a minute to really thing about what it mean when we say God is eternal, omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent God?  G...
Monday, March 31, 2014

The Power of a Word

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It is amazing how much power can result from changing one word. I have done this with the word HAVE, changing it to GET. That one change ha...
Monday, March 17, 2014

But My Counselor's Never Been an Addict

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I often hear people in the recovery process talk to me about having issues with their counselor because they have not had an addiction issue...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Dealing Hope and Decimating Stigma through Recovery Events

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Better Life in Recovery (BLiR) is off to an amazing year so far. Things are really starting to come together. I have been in discussions wi...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Out of the Ashes

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Today, I woke up and played with my daughter. I chased her around the house, listening to her peals of laughter ringing out as she shrieked...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The Platinum Rule

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Most of us know the Golden Rule, or ethic of reciprocity, "Do unto others as you would have them do to you." That was a quote attr...